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1. Between The World & You
- The Hawk In Paris

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I. Paris & The White Castle

Quintana bid adieu. The Count bowed & watched the man from the Andes recede from his view. The late afternoon sun sank low in spirit. The Count felt the heavy shadows fall in curtains upon his heart. And so another day passed.

He turned away from the balcony & sought his interior room of books. And then he bolted awake. He noticed the luminous icon- a pure white jasmine star set upon the black velvet of night- the personal seal of Princess Lei. He touched the icon.

A radiant bucket of light poured out into his room. She stood before him, in his study, a living image with a only a trace of dark optical static.

"Princess Lei, so good of you drop by."

The Count bowed slightly.

"Count- it's so wonderful to see you again. I am at the White Castle. I can't tell you how or why. There are forces larger than all of us at work."

She paused, her Asian eyes slanting down in a wet bamboo garden. The Count could see through her troubled eyes. He walked through her garden, reaching out, seeking her jasmine flower hiding somewhere in the bamboo. But there was only rain.

"My Lady, such as it is now, such as it has been since the beginning of history. Please, tell me your story."

And then the Count noticed something strange. Behind the Princess, he spied a spindly dark shadow, a stick man peeking out from behind a door. The stick man darted out of sight, as if he were hiding. The Count felt a chill run down his spine, as he once felt long ago in the Catacombs of Italy.

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